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25 courses · Coastline College · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Fall 2026 · Spring 2027
ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and Writing
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 72 lecture hours
- Prerequisite
- Placement as determined by the college’s multiple measures assessment process.
- Advisory
- The English department recommends that students whose cumulative GPA is between 2.0-2.59 enroll in ENGL C080N for writing support; The English department strongly recommends that students whose cumulative GPA is 1.9 or below or if students graduated high school 10 or more years ago enroll in ENGL C080N for writing support.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 100
Formerly: ENGL C1000. In this course, students receive instruction in academic reading and writing, including writing processes, effective use of language, analytical thinking, and the foundations of academic research. Common Course Number: ENGL C1000.
ENGL C1001 Critical Thinking and Writing
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Prerequisite
- College-level composition (ENGL C1000/CID ENGL 100) or equivalent.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 105
Formerly: ENGL C1001. In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing, evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000 College Reading and Writing (CID ENGL 100) or similar first-year college writing course. Common Course Number: ENGL C1001.
ENGL C1002 Introduction to Literature
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Prerequisite
- Successful completion of college-level composition (ENGL C1000/ENGL C1000H/ENGL C1000E/C-ID ENGL 100) or equivalent.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 120 (ENGL-LIT 100)
Formerly: ENGL C1002. Part 1: In this course, students are introduced to works by diverse authors and major literary genres, developing close reading and analytical writing skills. Students also develop appreciation for and critical understanding of the cultural, historical, and aesthetic qualities of literature. Part 2: This course introduces students to the broader conversations that shape literature across genres and eras. Students examine how writers use storytelling, dramatic structure, and poetic form to engage social issues, construct identity, and reflect the values of their communities. Emphasis is placed on connecting individual texts to larger literary traditions and movements. Common Course Number: ENGL C1002.
ENGL C1003 Critical Thinking and Writing Through Literature
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 72 lecture hours
- Prerequisite
- Successful completion of college-level composition (ENGL C1000/ENGL C1000H/ENGL C1000E/C-ID ENGL 100) or equivalent.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 110
Formerly: ENGL C1003. Part 1: In this course, students receive instruction in analytical, critical, and argumentative writing. Students develop critical thinking, close reading and literary analysis skills, research strategies, information literacy, and knowledge of accurate documentation through the study of diverse literary works from a variety of literary genres, developing an appreciation for literature. Part 2: This course extends students’ foundational writing and analytical skills by focusing on how literary works engage complex human, social, and philosophical questions. Students practice developing sustained, research-supported arguments that situate literature within broader cultural and historical conversations. Moreover, they will refine their interpretive voice and learn to enter academic discourse communities with clarity, precision, and intellectual independence. Common Course Number: ENGL C1003.
ENGL C103 Business English
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Transfers to
- CSU
Focuses on real-world English skills that contribute to good workplace communication. It includes English principles you already know, those you learned in the past and forgot, and those you wish you had learned. Students study grammar, English usage, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, and dictionary use from the businessperson's viewpoint. Emphasis is placed on finding and correcting types of errors people make while speaking and writing.
ENGL C109 Essay Writing
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Prerequisite
- A course taught at the level of Preparation for College Composition or appropriate English placement.
- Transfers to
- CSU
Students will write essays in different rhetorical modes. The basic principles of written composition will be applied through writing assignments and assigned essays. The process of choosing and shaping a thesis and writing an extended, well developed essay will be stressed. English C109 fulfills the Option 1 AA or AS degree's A2 requirement. It transfers to private and out-of-state colleges and universities as the first semester of a two-semester Freshman Composition requirement. It transfers to CSU only as an elective.
ENGL C128 Asian American and Transpacific Literature
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Asian American and Transpacific Literature studies narratives from major authors of Asian and Asian American descent, such as Viet Thanh Nguyen, Thi Bui, Tommy Orange, Bharati Mukerjee, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jessica Hagedorn, Andrew X. Pham, Ocean Vuong, Tony Tulathimutte, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, and Celeste Ng. The course explores the influence of Asia on American literature and the transpacific imagination inherent to the Asian immigration experience. Significant themes include war, conflict between generations, family expectations, diaspora, and immigration/ acculturation within texts that describe Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, Thai, Bangladeshi, Cambodian, Laotian, Pacific Islander, and South Asian/ Indian American experiences from the early mid-20th century onward. Reading content includes poetry, fiction, historical and contemporary narrative prose, and illustrated memoir that describe and/or critically examine the aesthetic, historical, cultural, sociological, environmental, and political forces at work in the texts.
ENGL C129 Black Voices: Introduction to African American Literature
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Black Voices: Introduction to African American literature studies major African American authors and literary movements from the vernacular tradition (such as oral epics, linguistic elements from African languages, folktales, call and response, improvisational practices, sermons, and music genres such as spirituals, gospel, blues, jazz, rap, hip-hop), the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920-30s, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, the Black Arts Era of the 1960-70s, Civil Rights Speeches, to present-day literary works. Texts include novels, poetry, dramatic plays or essays penned by Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, Malcolm X, Audre Lorde, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Octavia E. Butler, Caryl Phillips, Colson Whitehead, Ta-Nehisi Coates, N.K. Jemisin, and more.
ENGL C133 Introduction to Creative Writing
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Transfers to
- CSU
- C-ID
- ENGL 200
This course presents the craft of creative writing through the study and analysis of the works of established and peer writers. Students will practice writing in various genres and will be introduced to the workshop method.
ENGL C135 Business Writing
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Advisory
- ENGL C103.
- Transfers to
- CSU
This course addresses techniques, strategies, and forms of business communication, including use of precise professional and persuasive language to achieve business goals and communicate effectively in the workplace. Using a variety of media and technologies, students will learn how to produce effective memos, letters, and reports; prepare successful resumes and employment documents; and make effective presentations.
ENGL C136 Business Communication
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000.
- Transfers to
- CSU
- C-ID
- BUS 115
This course applies the principles of ethical and effective communication to the creation of letters, memos, emails, and written and oral reports for a variety of business situations. The course emphasizes planning, organizing, composing, and revising business documents using word processing software for written documents and presentation-graphics software to create and deliver professional-level oral reports. This course is designed for students who already have college-level writing skills.
ENGL C143 Children's Literature
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 180
This course provides a survey of classic and contemporary children's literature. The course will provide an overview of the literary content and social values found in selected works of children's literature.
ENGL C144 The International Short Story
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Advisory
- ENGL C1000.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course introduces the modern short story, emphasizing multicultural stories from countries throughout the world. Each story will be studied with regard to character, plot, theme, point of view, setting, tone, style, and other literary devices as they function within the context of the particular story. In addition, each story will be analyzed to understand the particular culture from which it comes.
ENGL C145 American Literature: The Short Story
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Advisory
- ENGL C1000.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course is an introduction to the American short story, emphasizing major American writers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and from various cultures in modern/contemporary America. Included is a view of historical period and mindset, and the study of character, plot, theme, point of view, setting, tone, style, and other literary devices as they function within the context of the particular story.
ENGL C146 Introduction to 20th Century Military Fiction
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Advisory
- ENGL C1000.
- Transfers to
- CSU
A survey of 20th century military fiction. This course will provide an overview of the literary content and social values found in selected works of military literature.
ENGL C150 American Literature through the Civil War
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 130
This course is designed to expose students to the legends, poetry, short stories, and essays of early American writers beginning with Native Americans, through Colonialism to the Civil War. Students will examine the philosophical, cultural, religious, and historic elements related to these texts. Attention will be paid to literary devices and styles evident in individual works and the commentary made by these works on moral and social issues. Writers include Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, William Apess, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Washington Irving, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and many others.
ENGL C155 American Literature 1865 to Present
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 135
This course exposes students to the fiction, poetry, select non-fiction, and genre-defying work of diverse American writers from the Civil War through the present. Students examine the relationship between these writers and the shifting literary, historical, political, sociocultural, intellectual, and aesthetic contexts since the American Civil War. They investigate the varying ways in which the works represent the moral and social issues of their time. Students are introduced to the themes, literary devices, and styles authors employ in individual works. The course explores both writers from the traditional literary canon and those who have been historically underrepresented. The course also highlights the continuing evolution of traditional literary genres and the creation of new genres.
ENGL C165 Technical Writing
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Transfers to
- CSU
Technical Writing introduces students to professional communications for subjects and careers that may include vocational trades, business, health and medical, the sciences, computing, gaming, and more. Participants compose and edit reports, descriptions, instructions, specifications, memos, and other documents.
ENGL C181 Shakespeare
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Formerly: ENGL C180. Participants will engage in analysis and interpretation of the works of William Shakespeare, evaluating his poems, comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. This instruction may be complemented by attendance of performances and/or viewing recommended videos/DVDs.
ENGL C270 British Literature to 1800
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 160
Formerly: ENGL C290. Analysis and interpretation of British Literature from the Middle Ages through the Restoration period in the eighteenth century. The course includes the literary characteristics of the major forms during this time period. Writers from this period may include Chaucer, Mallory, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, and others.
ENGL C275 British Literature since 1800
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 165
Formerly: ENGL C295. Study of British writers and literary characteristics from the Romantic period through the twentieth century.
ENGL C296 Gothic Victorian Literature
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Advisory
- ENGL C1000.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course is a survey of Gothic literature written during England's 19th century. The course will begin with the origins of the genre, its major conventions, and go on to trace the changes in the genre as measured by its historical and social contexts. Important Gothic texts, including the pre-Victorian work Frankenstein and canonical Victorian texts Dracula and Jane Eyre, will be studied in order to identify the components of 19th century British Gothic literature. Topics include vampirism, haunted mansions and female imprisonment.
ENGL C297 American Gothic Literature
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course is a survey of Gothic literature, concentrating on critically-acclaimed novels written during the 20th century in the United States. Students will study Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison's Beloved, The Shining by Stephen King, and Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides. The course will also study the 19th-century short story "Carmilla," which illustrates vampire themes, and compare the story's literary conventions to contemporary American Gothic themes.
ENGL C060N Introduction to Esports Writing Careers
- Hours
- 18 lecture hours
This course gives students the basic knowledge regarding the industry focusing on the history and current trends. This class explores the various career pathways one can follow with an English degree within this new developing industry. In addition to featuring industry professionals to provide up-to-date and relevant information, students will craft content they can use within the industry. Noncredit. NOT DEGREE APPLICABLE.
ENGL C080N Writing Center
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
The Writing Center helps students in transfer-level courses from all academic disciplines continue to develop their writing and reading skills through individual learning activities, workshops, and one-to-one conferences with an instructor. Students work with an English or English as a Second Language department faculty member to refine their understanding of writing and reading assignments in their transfer-level courses. The Writing Center is a tuition-free, noncredit course designed to provide students with individualized reading and writing instruction to fill in missing prerequisite knowledge and strengthen skills developed in a referring course or courses across the college. Noncredit. Open Entry/Open Exit. NOT DEGREE APPLICABLE.